Title: Nordic Innovation Centre
1Nordic Innovation Centre
Future efforts to promote healthy and sustainable
food systemsHealthCat the 25th April 2006
Mads Peter Schreiber Ph.D. Viseadministrerende
Direktør Deputy Managing Director m.schreiber_at_no
rdicinnovation.net www.nordicinnovation.net Â
2Nordic Innovation Centre
- Geography
- Norden
- The extended Nordic region, Baltic countries
- Organisation
- 14 employees
- Project portefolio
- Total value NOK 250 M
- NICes part NOK 70 M
3Innovation, defined
An innovation is a new product, a process or an
organisational change which creates commercial
success. Research results or inventions can only
become product innovations through interaction
with commercial interests.
4NICes overall mission
- Making it easier to develop and run business
across the borders of the Nordic countries
5Two main objectives
- Stimulate increased innovation through increased
cooperation between the innovation systems in
Nordic countries. - Establish Norden as one, inner market and a
borderless region through removal of barriers and
stimulating increased competition.
6Focus areas
A focus area is a thematically limited area,
creating a frame around a bundle of related
projects carried out in parallel with financial
support from NICe.
7Focus areas
- Biotechnology / ScanBalt
- Food Safety/SafeFoodEra
- Functional Food
- Creative Industries
- Innovative Building
- Innovation Policies
- Micro Nano technology
- Borderless region
8Why Food Safety as a NICe Focus Area?
- Large food related programmes from 1992
- Involving both research and innovation
cooperation - 2003 NICe establishes Food Safety as a Focus
Area and finances 4 Nordic projects
9- SAFEFOODERA
- Food Safety - Forming a European platform for
protecting consumers against health risks
10The Background of the Staircase
2004 ERA-NET SAFEFOODERA
2003 ERA-NET PERIAPT
2003 ERA-NET PROFORSAFE
2002 NRA-NET Processing for food safety
1993 NRA-NET NordFood
11Building the staircase
- by stimulating European countries to develop food
safety research programmes with transnational
activities - by balancing the need for research and funding at
national, regional and European level - by stimulating open communications between
authorities (EFSA, regional/national),
industries, consumers and scientists based on
scientific knowledge
122008 A European platform for protecting
consumers against food health risks
The Staircase to the Future
Transnational Activities
External communication
External communication
Joint Activities
External communication
Strategic Activities
External communication
Information Exchange
2004 ERA-NET SAFEFOODERA
13ERA-Net project - SafeFoodEra
- Create a European platform for producing food
products that do not harm the consumers. - Building European excellence in food safety
through coordinated research and improved
business innovations - EU funding 32 MNOK (4 MEUR) within the 6th
Framework Programme - 20 participating countries
- Based on Nordic success criteria Trust and
mutual understanding
14http//www.safefoodera.net
15Fundamental mission Coordination
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18Proposed Call SAFEFOODERA
- Topics negotiated for a common call (not yet
agreed) - Emerging Risk
- Pathogen Free in production system
- Zoonosis
- 2-stage system
- Kick off 1st January 2006
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